Ah! I was thinking about nixpkgs-unstable! Sorry. I’d still like to know what happened to nixos-unstable, so looking forward for the post-mortem write up.
On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 2:42 PM Arseniy Seroka <[email protected]> wrote: > As far as I can see, current nixos-unstable channel refers to commit > from 9th of April. > > On 11 April 2015 14:35:26 Kirill Elagin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I wasn’t aware of problems with channels updates, so could anyone explain >> in a few lines what was going on? >> >> Some weeks ago I needed a more recent version of nixpkgs than the one >> that was available on the channel, so I picked the most successful >> evaluation of nixpkgs:trunc, checked it out locally and setup binary caches >> to point to hydra. Then I rebuilt my whole environment from this checkout >> and have been using it ever since. >> Now, when I heard that the channel was updated, I decided to give it a >> shot, updated channels and… nothing changed. So I checked the hashes and, >> turns out, the channel was updated to exactly the same commit that I was >> successfully using (i.e. nothing had to be built locally) for weeks. >> >> So, what exactly wasn’t working? >> >> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 6:43 PM Domen Kožar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Yes, it's mainly about establishing the feedback loop without too much >>> spam. >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Peter Simons <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> One obvious improvement, IMHO, would be to send Hydra failure >>>> notifications >>>> from the test job to this mailing list to make sure we are aware of >>>> failures >>>> within a relatively short time after the commit that caused them. >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> Peter >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> nix-dev mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> nix-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> nix-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >> >>
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